Tutorial: Getting Started With Amazon Kinesis Streams Using
AWS CLI

This tutorial shows you how to perform basic Amazon Kinesis Streams operations using
the AWS Command Line Interface. You
will learn fundamental Kinesis Streams data flow principles and the steps necessary
to put and get
data from an Kinesis stream.

For CLI access, you need an access key ID and secret access key.
For more information about creating access keys, see
How Do I Get Security Credentials?
in the AWS General Reference.

You can find detailed step-by-step IAM and security key set up instructions at Create an IAM
User.

In this tutorial, the specific commands discussed will be given verbatim, except where
specific values will necessarily be different for each run. Also, the examples are
using the
US West (Oregon) region, but this tutorial will work on any of the regions that support Kinesis Streams.